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[FUT: lugnet.market.shipping]
In lugnet.market.theory, Geoffrey Hyde writes:
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> "Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatico.deletethisspamblock.ca> wrote in
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> > As far as I'm concerned people are free to choose where they will
> > ship to. But here's how my shipping methods work in Canada. Order
> > comes in, I measure up the sets stacked in the smallest volume
> > possible. I have learned that *all* LEGO sets will have shipping
> > charged by volume and not weight because their density is so low. The
> > "minimum density" that gets applied is an internation standard
> > so most all countries will calculate the effective weight the same
> > way. I calculate this weight in all of 15 seconds..., no scale
>
> Is that only for LEGO packed in the original boxes? I've got a fair bit of
> LEGO I'm sorting out and it weighs around 10kg, and it's in a box around
> about 40cm by 30cm by 25cm but it's not MISB in original boxes - it's all
> bagged, ready for me to send it wherever I want to send it. When I had the
> weight checked, Australia Post here never mentioned anything about volume
> charges ...
Yeah, sorry, it is for sets in the original boxes. There's a lot of
air inside LEGO sets. When you load a plane, truck, etc., you are
space-limited. That air you're shipping takes up the space of a lot
of other packages. So they make the air really heavy and charge you
accordingly by weight :] The int'l standard I referred to says you
take the volume (in cm^3) and divide by 6000 to get kg. (Somebody
can work out the number for other length units, I've got to go get
ready for work.) Every set I've shipped has had this "fake weight"
higher than actual, and that's what determines the shipping. The
closest one I've had to going buy its actual weight was I think
the 4561 train set. It's heavy and packed pretty tight.
Anyhow, you can now see that adding packing material around the set
will increase shipping costs dramatically, because the volume shoots
way up. As a result I make custom boxes (cardboard "shells") to
put around the sets for protection. It seems to work as long as no
one sits on the package :]
Gotta go,
KDJ
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LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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